Among the Birds in Northern Shires

Among the Birds in Northern Shires

Author of Rural Bird-life The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands British Sea Birds Curiosities of Bird-life The Migration of Birds The Migration of British Birds Bird-life in a Southern County &c The present volume must be regarded more as a popular introduction to the bird-life of our northern shires than in any way as an exhaustive faunal treatise, although at the same time we believe almost every indigenous species has been included. For twenty years we lived surrounded by these northern birds, so that we may fairly claim to have served our ornithological apprenticeship amongst them. With the birds of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire we are specially familiar; whilst repeated visits not only to the Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Northumbrian littoral, but farther afield into Lancashire, and various parts of the Lowlands and the Highlands of Scotland, have enabled us to acquire much personal information relating to the avifauna of many a northern shire. The difference between the avifaun of the northern and southern shires is strongly marked in many respects. Their study makes a record of avine comparisons of the most intense interest. The important effects produced by latitude and climate upon the bird-life of these widely separated areas make material for fascinating investigation, and have been fully dwelt upon as opportunities were presented. This variation in avine phenomena is not only far too often entirely ignored, but is apt to lead the student of [vi] bird-lore astray; due allowance has to be made in many cases for this difference in latitude, and all that it involves. The present volume, then, to a great extent a study of ornithological comparisons, will, we trust, be of some service to the bird lover or the bird student in his task of making allowances. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 46055
Author: Dixon, Charles
Release Date: Jun 21, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Whymper, Charles, 1853-1941